ATLANTIC COMBINE
TACKLED BY CANADA
OUTSIDE SHIPPING ENCOURAGED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPIRIOHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CA6LB ASSOCIATION.) OTTAWA, 17th March. Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prune Minister, announces that the Government is prepared to make a contract with any steamship company in Canada similar to the contract with the Peterson Line, if it is prepared to make a like return.
Mr. King said the object of the Government scheme was to ensure that on at least one-half of the trade between Canada and Britain the rates should be controlled not by a combine with headquarters in New York, but by the Gov. eminent of Canada.
"Any Canadian company which will give a. service similar to that given by the Peterson Line will be given similar treatment," said Mr. King, who added that ho personally had made that proposal to the Canadian Pacific Railway officials a few days ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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146ATLANTIC COMBINE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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